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Tahoe Forest launches Community Health Index; diabetes and youth substance‑use work groups begin pilots

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Hospital community-health staff presented a new Community Health Index with 15 metrics and two active work groups—A1C control (diabetes) and youth substance use—outlining data sources, early findings, a public dashboard prototype and planned interventions including virtual diabetes education and clinic surveys for youth substance use.

Tahoe Forest Health System staff presented progress on a newly established Community Health Index that will track 15 indicators across five priority areas to measure the system’s stated ‘‘community’’ strategic pillar.

Presenters Maria Martin (director of community health), Megan Shirley (population-health medical director) and Lizzie Hennessy (population-health analyst) said the index draws on internal Epic data, the California Healthy Kids Survey (TTUSD), the UCLA loneliness scale and the system’s community‑health needs assessment. The board heard a…

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